'Day timers': the club events that brought young British Asians together

A new exhibition showcases Bradford’s underground music scene, which offered a cultural haven and spawned a generation of DJs

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For the influx of South Asian immigrants to Bradford in the 1950s and 1960s, a sense of home would have been difficult to come by. Asian cafe jukeboxes and Bollywood movies may have provided some cultural connection, but it was not until the late 1980s that this British Asian community found its own voice through a series of Wednesday afternoon club events.

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